But the more interesting thing coming out of NamesCon is its aggressive goal for attendees next year. It expects to host 800 to 1,000 people, which would make it the biggest domain conference ever that was organized by people from the domain investor side. (We’ll call ICANN a policy-based event.)

Although it’s an ambitious goal, the conference blew past its 400 person goal last year and ended up expanding conference space to accommodate more people. Depending on where the new TLD program is next January the conference might hit four figures.